Huey Smith & The Clowns - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Ring A Ding Ding! I've always had a thing about seeking out what I consider the best Christmas albums. My first encounter with a actual …Read more
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Nov 29 2021
A Moment in Time: Van Morrison & Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. 1968)
Release Date: November 29, 1968 Warner Bros Records
When I got out of bed his morning, I suddenly realized that 53 years ago Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album was released. Looking back on those days, I…
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May 4 2021
Remembering Bill Graham & The Fillmore East
This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend,
Jeff Goldstein
who spent many happy hours @ The Fillmore East
The Story of the Fillmore East begins here...
Located…
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Apr 14 2021
Rock & Roll: The Psychedelic Years (Expanded Edition)
Psychedelic rock was a musical genre that emerged in the mid-sixties due to the popularity of such mind-altering drugs as LSD, mescaline, cannabis and peyote mushrooms. The roots of Psychedelic Rock begin here: On Friday April 16, 1943 (a…
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Jul 22 2020
Hot Platters: Alone Together - Dave Mason (Blue Thumb Records, 1970)
TRACK LIST
01. Only You Know & I Know
02. Can’t Stop Worrying, Can’t Stop Loving
03. Waitin On You
04. Shouldn’t Have Took Me Than You Gave
05. World In Changes
06.…
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Mar 24 2020
Faces in the Crowd: Jimmy Miller (Producer)
“One thing that producers and engineers tend to have in common is their undeniable love of music, and it is the highs they experience in the recording studio--those exhilarating moments when the blending of artistic effort, musical material, and…
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Feb 11 2020
The History of Glam Rock
Glam Rock was a rock & roll music genre which proceeded the punk music movement in the early 70's. Along with the music which parlayed rock music in a much more flamboyant manner, Glam Rock also had a significant…
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Oct 3 2019
Hot Platters: The Blues Project - Projections (Verve/Folkways 1966)
"One of the first album-oriented, underground groups in the United States, the Blues Project offered an electric brew of rock, blues, folk, pop, and even some jazz, classical, and psychedelia during their brief heyday in the mid-'60s. It's not…
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Sep 10 2019
Hot Platters: Bad Rice - Ron Nagle (Warner Bros. 1970)
Back in the early 1970's, while attending college in Dayton, Ohio, I used to go to this great record store called The Forest which was just off-campus. Many a happy hour was spent thumbing thru the album racks…
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Jun 18 2019
Hot Platters: Barnstorm (1972, ABC/Dunhill Records)
Track List
01. Here We Go
02. Midnight Visitor
03. One and One
04. Giant Bohemoth
05. Mother Says
06. Birdcall Morning
07. Home
08. I'll Tell The World
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Mar 21 2019
Rock & Roll I Gave You The Best Years of My Life
As a songwriter, I've always enjoyed writing in a wide variety of musical genres but the rock & roll genre has always been my favorite genre. More often than not, rock & roll music has always been there to…
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Mar 7 2019
Remembering M.C. Osso
Cover Artwork: M.C. Osso
Mind Smoke Records is proud to announce the release of
American Zoom Anthologyan eclectic collection of M.C. Osso recordings
that capture the many musical personas of this mercurial artist.
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Feb 20 2019
All You Really Need Is A Little Rock & Roll!
My new single out is out today!
Special Thanks to all of the tasty players
who helped me out on this track:
Jeff Goldstein (Bass Guitar)
"Diamond" Ray Finch (Guitar Riff that opens the…
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